Welcome to WWW Wednesday! This meme was formerly hosted by MizB at A Daily Rhythm and revived here on Taking on a World of Words. Just answer the three questions below and leave a link to your post in the comments for others to look at. No blog? No problem! Just leave a comment with your responses. Please, take some time to visit the other participants and see what others are reading. So, let’s get to it!

The Three Ws are:

What are you currently reading? What did you recently finish reading? What do you think you’ll read next?

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Currently reading: I’m on the last disk for World Without End by Ken Follett and I hope to wrap it up today or tomorrow. I’ll be sad when this one ends but it was a great ride and if there’s a third in this series, I’ll read it in a heartbeat.
I’m making steady progress with Misterio de la Guia de Ferrocarriles by Agatha Christie. Reading in another language puts me to bed really fast so I don’t get a ton of this read each night, but some. I’ll keep chipping away at it.
Again, nothing with Library of Souls by Ransom Riggs. I’ll have to wait until February when we have a few road trips planned. Sigh.
I started a new audiobook on my phone, Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf. Maybe this is one not to listen to but I’m not enjoying it very much. It’s turned very inward and jumps around between the characters a lot which I wasn’t ready for and I’m having trouble following it.
I need a new ebook and decided to turn to The Book of Speculation by Erika Swyler. I have a lot of time to read at lunch this week so it will be nice to escape for a while. This book was really hot for a while but seems to have faded out a bit since then. I’m excited to pick it up and see what it’s all about!

Recentlyfinished: I decided not to get out of bed on Saturday until I finished The Birthday Boys by Beryl Bainbridge. It didn’t take too long as most of the last 10% of the book was a biography of Bainbridge full of pictures. My review will be up tomorrow. As always, I enjoyed Bainbridge’s style but this time I had a slightly harder time following the characters than I have before.
I finished South of Broad by Pat Conroy on Thursday and absolutely loved it. My review went up on Monday so please check that out if you have the time. It was a great book. I gave it a full Five out of Five stars and I now want to go to Charleston.

Reading Next: I keep having to stop myself from grabbing Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? by Mindy Kaling off my shelf. I will as soon as I finish Christie but not before then.

Shameless Plug: If you’re still looking for reading challenges in 2017, take a look at my historical fiction reading challenge, When Are You Reading? Let me know you’re interested and I’ll add you to the participant list. I had 13 people participate last year and I’d love to have a bigger group this year!

Leave a comment with your link and a comment (if you’re so inclined). Take a look at the other participant links in the comments and look at what others are reading.

I think that her books are amazing! It’s hard to get used to read in another language, especially in the beggining cause you read slower, it happened to me but you’ll get used to. So you speak spanish?

I read Mrs. Dalloway last year. I can imagine it’s pretty hard to follow as an audiobook. I sometimes had to re-read sentences because it would flip from one character to another so suddenly that I missed it. I almost picked up an Agatha Christie yesterday. I’ve never read any of her novels but I’ve seen so many TV adaptions!

It’s been a big challenge on audio to deal with the head-jumping and differentiating between narration and thought. I get lost a lot and have to think seriously about who is speaking/thinking and how they’re related to other people. Happy Wednesday!

I hear such great things about Ken Follett, especially from my older brother. 😛 I might have to check out one of his books/series soon.
Mindy Kaling’s book is another one that I’d love to read. I don’t even really like memoirs, but I like her enough that I would read hers, haha.
Here’s my WWW this week: https://kourtnireads.wordpress.com/2017/01/25/www-wednesday-12517/

I find myself picking up new books when I dont want to admit that Im not into the current books Im reading. Its not necessarily that they are bad, but I find it hard to find a suitable book after finishing one that I feel in love with. Hope your reading this week picks up and yay for 5 star books!

Haha, I’ve found myself doing that as well. I go ahead and pick up the new book telling myself it’s a ‘fling’ but I know I’ll have trouble going back to the original book. Gosh, it sounds like infidelity in a relationship, haha. Happy Wednesday.

I LOVE Mrs. Dalloway, but Virginia Woolf can be very introspective. I also suggest maybe reading (or watching) The Hours by Michael Cunningham, that can help put Dalloway in perspective. I read it first and it made VW make a lot more sense. Here’s my link (posts at 10:30 cst) http://ilayreading.com/2017/01/25/www-wednesday-1252017/

Awesome, glad to have you joining the challenge! Shoot me your link and I’ll add you to the list. Welcome back for another year. I felt pushed to read ‘Hanging Out’ when I realized she already had another book. Yikes. Happy Wednesday!

I definitely think Mrs. Dalloway would be a tough one to listen to! If you like it enough, I’d encourage you to read it. We studied it in one of my lit classes, and it’s really interesting form-wise. Enjoy your other reads!

I really enjoyed Mrs Dalloway but I read it in print form and imagine it would be quite difficult to get to grips with on audio. I hope you find a way of reading it that works for you because it is a wonderful novel. I also hope you get to the Mindy Kaling book at last this week and that it’s worth the wait.
Here’s my www post: https://rathertoofondofbooks.com/2017/01/25/www-wednesday-25-jan/

Good luck finishing World Without End and congrats on making progress with your Spanish read! I really should pick one up next month myself… I hope you will enjoy your books this week and happy reading! Here’s my WWW.

Virginia Woolf is on of those authors who I am constantly told I will enjoy — and who I feel like I should enjoy — but my few attempts to read her work have left me feeling meh. Though I haven’t given up on her! I think I always tend to pick her work up at the wrong time, haha.

I am so late this week and I don’t have an excuse other than tech.
If I’m remembering correctly, World Without End is indeed part 2 of 3, but since I still haven’t managed to read it despite years of it being on my TBR, what do I know? Glad to hear you’re enjoying most of your reads, and good luck getting through Christie’s mystery so you can move onto more books.
Here’s my WWW post: https://siderealday.wordpress.com/2017/01/25/www-wednesday-125/
Thanks for hosting and happy reading!

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